PANJIM: With the candidates gearing up for admissions for the first year degree programme in general stream for the academic year 2020-21, the Directorate of Higher Education (DHE) has introduced a centralised online admission system, through which students can apply in two non-professional colleges of their choice, at a time. The online admission process will begin on July 15.
In a press statement issued on Saturday, DHS has said that all the students, who have cleared Class XII, and seeking admissions in any of colleges which are under the administrative control of DHE, should apply through common portal available on http:// https://www.dhe.goa.gov.in.
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The government and aided colleges under DHE’s administrative control offers spectrum of courses including BA, BCOM, BSC, BCA, BBA, LLB, Music, Home Science, BSC/BEd, BA/BEd and several others.
Generally, these colleges were handling the non-professional undergraduate students’ admissions process independently either online or in-person.
“But this year the process will be centralised and will be completely handled online including fees payment without visiting off site campus,” the DHS said.
The Directorate maintained that in the view of ongoing COVID-19 pandemic challenges, under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) guidelines, since it has been recommended to avoid any in-person academic activities including admission for upcoming academic year, the DHS has decided to streamline the admission process completely online.
Referring to ground level and real-time challenges of admission and selection process, the DHS took a novel initiative to design and develop comprehensive online admission software for all non-professional colleges to process admission through a common portal.
“The portal will provide detailed guidelines for the students about the online application process. Through this portal, the students can apply to a maximum of two colleges of their choices across Goa with the priority option,” the DHS said.
The portal will also facilitate the merit list generation, counselling, final selection, and online payment. The students, who are not shortlisted in first iteration of admission, will get a chance to apply in second iteration.
Around 15,339 students have cleared Class XII Board examination this year.
